In addition, there is now a letter addressed to the deputies of the USSR Supreme Soviet and the RSFSR Supreme Soviet. The main point in this letter is that the sentences imposed on five of the demonstrators are
Current Assault on Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties: Origins and Approaches, The28.364 (Callaghan 1990)) (punishes disorderly person which is defined as any a recidivist statute,upon a defendant who had been convicted of fraudulent use of a The quintessential symbolicmeasure is censorship; ...
essays & writings on current issues and political events November 2015 The Paris atrocity, and after - Paul Rogers [Western Middle East policy] December 2008 The Dark Heart Of The Eco-Terrorist Peril - George Monbiot [civil liberties] September 2006 When Assumption Trumps Objectivity - Habib ...
The constitution weakened the presidency by imposing term limits on future presidents, eliminating the president's veto power, and devolving power to the provinces. In addition, it expands civil liberties with a bill of rights and creates peace and reconciliation, election and anti-corruption ...
Chinese Communist Party. China severely restricts its citizens' civil, religious, and political rights. The use of torture has been widely documented, and for many years it has executed more people than any other country in the world, carrying out more than three-quarters of the world's ...
Just erect a makeshift range in the back yard and fire away. It's perfectly legal If It Doesn't Work, It Doesn't Work. Period 'But it works.' That, in three syllables, has been the go-to argument of the last two presidential administrations to justify assaulting civil liberties in...
Bialiatsky was honoured by the Nobel committee in October in Oslo along with the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Bialiatsky, 60, has been an advocate of democracy in Belarus since the 1980s and for...
On climate change, the social safety net, labor, ballot access, and rights important to women, immigrants and minorities, Democrats are generally at least marginally better than Republicans. That holds true in the Biden vs. Trump rematch. These are hugely important issues and many progressives ...
The Handy American Government Answer Book: How Washington, Politics and Elections Work by Gina Misiroglu The stakes have never been higher: national security, civil liberties, the economy, the future of the republic. Yet few outside Washington really... Read More » ISBN: 9781578596393 $49...
Fellow Americans, our civil liberties are under assault by the Department of Justice. On Saturday, the 21st of March, news broke that the department asked congress to grant them dramatically expanded power to interdict judicial proceedings. According to Reason, these abilities cover “any statutes ...